USC Dornsife News

How much do microbes control our internal climate, and can we manipulate the microbiome to adjust the thermostat? [7½ min read]

The USC Dornsife study also suggests that aging is not always something seen as occurring late in life. It may be observed at the molecular level. [2 1/4 min read]

Genoeconomist Daniel Benjamin of USC Dornsife says that a combination of roughly 1,000 genetic variants across the genome can predict the length of a person’s formal education to a degree comparable with the usual demographic predictors.

USC Dornsife researchers looking at two genes involved in our ability to remember things as we age find that one plays a more important role than previously understood.

Daniel Benjamin of the Center for Economic and Social Research projects a vision of how analyzing the big data of genetics may improve social policy intervention and life outcomes.

Scientists led by Xiaojiang Chen of biological sciences and chemistry at USC Dornsife find that proteins squeeze DNA to melt it open to let replication begin.

Science has laid bare the human genome in its entirety, giving researchers, clinicians and each of us extraordinary access to our genetic blueprint — and the promise and problems that come with it.

Thanks to USC Dornsife’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF), five undergraduates expand their knowledge of neuroscience and genetics while working over the summer in the laboratory of Dion Dickman of biological sciences.

Susan Forsburg of biological sciences is among the first to receive a new type of NIH grant. The award supports her studies of how cells cope with genetic instability that can lead to disease.